Applied learning - the use of timber in architectural education by Fereday, George

“…The CASS School of Architecture at London Metropolitan University conducts a week long making workshop with its second year undergraduate architecture students on an annual basis. …”
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Manual versus powered toothbrushes for oral health; an update by Yaacob, Munirah, Scott A, Deacon, Chris, Deery, Anne-Marie , Gleeny, Michael, Heanue, A Damien , Walmsley, Helen, Worthington, Peter G, Robinson

“…Conclusion: Rotation-oscillation powered toothbrushes remove plaque and reduce gingivitis more than manual brushes in the short and long term. …”
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Performance of floating piled raft with varying lengths in soft compressible subsoil by Tan, Yean Chin

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Effect of curing regime on the immobilization of municipal solid waste incineration fly ash in sustainable cement mortar by Baoju Liu, Baoju Liu, Lei Yang, Lei Yang, Jinyan Shi, Jinyan Shi, Shipeng Zhang, Shipeng Zhang, Çağlar Yalçınkaya, Çağlar Yalçınkaya, Abdullah Faisal Alshalif, Abdullah Faisal Alshalif

“…Compared with standard curing, steam curing and carbonation curing made the early-age and long-term performance of MIFAmodified mortar better, which can promote the efficient application of MIFA in OPC products.…”
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A study on the application of discrete curvature feature extraction and optimization algorithms to battery health estimation by Hui Hwang Goh, Hui Hwang Goh, Zhen An, Zhen An, Dongdong Zhang, Dongdong Zhang, Wei Dai, Wei Dai, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Kai Chen Goh, Kai Chen Goh

“…Therefore, to account for the unpredictable and random character of the application circumstances, we employ the U-chord long curvature feature extraction approach to minimise errors resulting from rotation and noise. …”
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Effect of curing regime on the immobilization of municipal solid waste incineration fly ash in sustainable cement mortar by Baoju Liu, Baoju Liu, Lei Yang, Lei Yang, Jinyan Shi, Jinyan Shi, Shipeng Zhang, Shipeng Zhang, Çağlar Yalçınkaya, Çağlar Yalçınkaya, Abdullah Faisal Alshalif, Abdullah Faisal Alshalif

“…Compared with standard curing, steam curing and carbonation curing made the early-age and long-term performance of MIFAmodified mortar better, which can promote the efficient application of MIFA in OPC products.…”
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Univariate and multivariate time series blood glucose prediction with LSTM deep learning model by Mohamed Nordin, Muhammad Shahmi, Mahmud, Farhanahani

“…Deep learning, particularly Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, proves its ability to grasp long-term dependencies in sequential data however, creating an accurate model for a time-series blood glucose prediction is a complex challenge that requires further research and exploration in the modeling. …”
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The concept of antagonistic metallic couples: a possible antidote for Alzheimer's by Shahab, Syed Alwi

“…The concept that there are naturally occuring antidotes to combat diverse forms of human physical illness has long enthralled the human imagination. The discovery of the existence of antagonistic (opposite) couples among the chemical elements in the periodic table has opened up a promising avenue for investigation into combating the onslaught of Alzheimer's disease and other illnesses involving toxic imbalance of chemical elements in the human body. …”
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Evolving Malaysia by Ani, Mohd Hanafi

“…Towards the end of the 12th century, while Western Europe was still wavering between a dying Roman influence and a dawning Gothicism, preliminaries to a medieval era which would make possible the development of a worldwide humanism, Asia had already lived through her classical period and, sinking into decay, was preparing to face a long period of political and spiritual unrest.…”
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Multi-pulse residual excitation model (MP-PRE) by Shah, Asadullah, Shaikh, Muniba

“…The design of MP-PRE considers that after short term and long term correlations yet some correlation exist over the onset and sudden transitional regions where the energy of the signal is rising. …”
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Tony Fretton Architects: buildings and their territories by Fretton, Anthony

“…This monograph provides a long-awaited reference work to his oeuvre.…”

Tumorigenic role of podoplanin in esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma by ., Nur Rahadiani, Ikeda, Jun-ichiro, Makino, Tomoki, Tian, Tian, Qiu, Ying, Mamat, Suhana, Wang, Yi, Doki, Yuichiro, Aozasa, Katsuyuki, Morii, Eiichi

“…The effects of podoplanin on the behavior of cancer cells were evaluated in ESCC cell lines in which podoplanin expression was knocked down. …”
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Diminishing partnership: bankers strategic response to Shariah compliance home financing by Abdul Razak, Dzuljastri, Ismail, Yusof

“…Under DP home financing, customer and bank share profit based on the rental value of the house instead of predetermined interest rate where bank gains profit upfront .As such DP is claimed to be fairer and more flexible than debt financing which result in more justice, equality and cater for societal well being that is in line with the Maqasid al Shariah. This research adopted a mixed method by obtaining the perceptions of three stakeholders namely consumers, Shariah scholars and bankers. …”
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Design of a compact printed band-notched antenna for ultrawideband communications by Mohd Sobli, Nuurul Hudaa, Abdel-Raouf, Hany Essam Eldin

“…The proposed antenna is fed by microstrip line, and it consists of square radiating patch on the top layer with a slotted-parasitic patch on the bottom layer of the antenna. …”
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Fiber break location technique utilizing stimulated Brillouin scattering effects in optical fiber by Bakar, A.A.A., Al-Mansoori, M.H., Mahdi, Mohd Adzir, Zainal Abidin, Mohd Shahnan, Mohd Azau, M.A.

“…This technique enables the utilization of a less-sensitive photodetector to detect the Brillouin Stokes line since its intensity increases with the fiber length in the detectable region. …”
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Testing a model of Islamic corporate financial reports: some experimental evidence by Sulaiman, Maliah

“…Given the fact that religion stands at the core of some cultures, and that Islam is a significant force influencing the manner in which Muslims conduct their public and private lives, the influence of Islam on accounting may be significant. In line with this, Baydoun and Willett (1994 and 2000) suggested that the current value balance sheet and the value added statement would meet Islam’s objectives of socio-economic justice and accountability, thus satisfying the needs of Muslim users to a greater extent than would the traditional historical cost balance sheet and the profit and loss statement. …”
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Critical success factors of the nine challenges in Malaysia's Vision 2020 by Islam, Rafikul

“…The present paper seeks to identify and rank the critical success factors of these nine challenges by applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process. A number of ‘front-line’ critical success factors are discussed at length. …”
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A new automated compact substation for distribution system in Malaysia by Ahmed, Musse Mohamud

“…Microprocessor based Remote Monitoring Devices have been used for customized software to be downloaded to the hardware. Power Line Carrier (PLC) has been used as communication media between the consumer and the substation. …”
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The utilization of information and communication technology among Islamic secondary school teachers in Malaysia by Abdul Rashid, Adnan

“…Since then, the government – through Ministry of Education – has introduced various initiatives to facilitate the adoption and diffusion of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). In line with the Vision 2020, Ministry of Education has draft ways so as to integrate ICT into education system. …”
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Islamic bioethics of pain medication: an effective response to mercy argument by Malik, Mohammad Manzoor

“…The researcher particularly deliberates on the contemporary Islamic discourse on the issue; by furthering the debate in line with the Islamic legal maxims and general guidance from the primary sources of Islamic law and ethics. …”
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